What if a cabal of powerful interests were secretly working to claim ownership rights over the land and air and water, over life-saving medicine and over ideas and over the DNA, and create a global infrastructure that lets them enforce these claims violently anywhere in the world, depriving the impoverished majority of the world of the benefits of modernization.

Because that's like, happening, except for the "secretly" part, because those are just the normal and open workings of capitalism.

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